Including the judge, herself, or potential witnesses who may testify on in a federal criminal trials, stemming from his effort to subvert the 2020 election. Now, prosecutors said, quote, the defendants past conduct, including conduct that has taken place after and as a direct result of the indictment in this case, actually demonstrates the need for this order. Adding that trumps past salvos had already resulted in harassment of potential witnesses. Of course, to no ones surprise, yeah, donald trump responded by doing what he always does. Lashing out. This, time on social media, claiming that President Biden had weaponize the doj and the fbi. Of course, there is no evidence to support that whatsoever. And its requests, the special counsels office contends that trump hosts amount to more than a mere breach of decorum, because his public vitriol has a history of unleashing harassment by his followers. Of course, the prosecution specifically cited Donald Trumps infamous attacks on his form
Night, the special counsel jack smith asked judge Tanya Chutkan to issue a gag order against donald trump prohibiting him from attacking prosecutors. Including the judge, herself, or potential witnesses who may testify on in a federal criminal trials, stemming from his effort to subvert the 2020 election. Now, prosecutors said, quote, the defendants past conduct, including conduct that has taken place after and as a direct result of the indictment in this case, actually demonstrates the need for this order. Adding that trumps past salvos had already resulted in harassment of potential witnesses. Of course, to no ones surprise, yeah, donald trump responded by doing what he always does. Lashing out. This, time on social media, claiming that President Biden had weaponize the doj and the fbi. Of course, there is no evidence to support that whatsoever. And its requests, the special counsels office contends that trump hosts amount to more than a mere breach of decorum, because his public vit
Senior attorney for the Group Booking a new suit on Abortion Access and other states is here. And later, believing in science for americas future. At a time when it rapidly tragic climate makes the topic more urgent than ever. This is american voices. We begin this hour breaking news and texas. Republicans in the state senate failed to help one of their own accountable. Voting to acquit Attorney General ken paxton and the pitchman trial. This is once again the story of gop leaders prioritizing loyalty to the party above all else. Impeachment articles accused paxton of misconduct, bribery, and corruption. Just two gop senators broke with their party to vote for conviction. Texas senator called out his republican colleagues lack of courage today on msnbc. What happened here wasnt a tossup, this was an easy bank shot. Every one of these republicans saw this evidence, they should have all voted for conviction. But the midpolitical choice rather than the expedient choice, rather than the ha
you know, donald trump is 74 years old and my theory is he is going to be a defendant for the rest of his life. there are civil lawsuits out there now. there will be appeals, and there is eric swalwell, and that lawsuit is available to hundreds of members of congress who could each individually file one of those lawsuits against donald trump. there could be no end. the when benny thompson filed the first civil lawsuit against trump, and eric swalwell filed a different one what i thought was going to happen, is benny thompson would go first, and other members of the congress would decide they wanted to join in. i didn t realize, if anyone had slightly different approaches to the same problem, it could be a parade that lasts until the end of his life. i spend the day studying eric swalwell s lawsuit. we are going to be juned by the harvard constitutional law. fp he tells us this is a real lawsuit and it won t be dismissed. it will get to a jury. it will get to a washingto
eric swalwell filed a different one, what i thought was going to happen, is benny thompson would go first, and other members of the congress would decide they would join in. it could become a larger class. i didn t realize, if anyone had slightly different approaches to the same problem, it could be a parade that lasts until the end of his life. i ve spent the day studying eric swalwell s lawsuit. we are going to be joined by the harvard constitutional law professor, laurence tribe. if he tells us this is a real lawsuit and it won t be dismissed, it will get to a jury. it will get to a washington, d.c., jury. then that indicates it s going to be many, many, many more. yeah, and well, i know he has been thinking about it and writing about it. i just read his piece. i can t wait for you to talk to him. we will do that. thank you. and one of the things to watch now is who will be the first criminally charged attacker of the capitol who turns on donald trump and fires a